Details
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Type:
New Feature
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Status:
Closed
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Priority:
Trivial
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Resolution: Duplicate
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Affects Version/s: 1.2
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Fix Version/s: None
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Component/s: Forum
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Labels:None
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Environment:All
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Affected Branches:MOODLE_12_STABLE
Description
I'm not sure this is a bug or a misunderstood feature.
Preliminary:
I've assigned myself (the admin account) as a teacher of a course. I have three visible groups being forced for the course. I have three sections. I want them to be able to see each other, but by having them in groups it makes it easier for me to manage all 60+ students.
Issue:
I want to be able to (as Teacher or Admin) make a post to the News forum for the course and have the message emailed to all groups. The way I see it, with the groups setup like I have them, mail will only go to the users in the group I belong to.
Issue Links
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| MDL-14394 | bulk posting into all groups when forum in separate mode |
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From Martin Dougiamas (martin at moodle.com) Saturday, 20 March 2004, 04:59 PM:
Hmm, if the groups are forced then this is how it's supposed to work, yes. You can actually post a message into each of the three groups (select the view, then post).
If the groups are not forced then yo could of course have a normal non-grouped forum there even if all the other forums are grouped.
From Martin Dougiamas (martin at moodle.com) Saturday, 20 March 2004, 05:17 PM:
Reopening, because it would be nice to do what you want (post something into all groups at once).
But this is a feature request now, not a bug, so I've renamed it too.
From (scott.elliott at mchsi.com) Saturday, 20 March 2004, 10:45 PM:
I knew I must have been misunderstanding the use of Force. I guess I was assuming the combination of Visible with Force, all activities would use visible groups by default. The behavior I got was to me more like Separate with Force.
Also, regardless of the group standings, admin/teacher may need to post something to all students without creating a separate form. Maybe something could be added to the forum post interface if the user is admin/teacher:
if (admin/teacher and groupsused)
display option for forum post to be viewable(mailedto) any combination of groups
Just more thoughts and probably wrong assumptions
From Martin Dougiamas (martin at moodle.com) Saturday, 20 March 2004, 11:17 PM:
Sounds good to me!